Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed over 30,000 people in three mature and three growth markets to discover what consumers will want from retailers in the future.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. Between 1994 and 2011, the number of farmers markets across the United States grew from 1,755 to 7,175. A parallel trend is the rise of the food truck movement. In other words, these are fundamentally more human retail experiences.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. million in 2011. Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., million women-owned businesses in the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. New healthcare laws also suggest a possible increase in entrepreneurial activity, thus creating more jobs, hopefully creating a positive hiring trend. Will the steady increase in the economy translate into a positive hiring forecast?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." Below are a few of our most popular pieces covering nascent trends and new opportunities. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Well, a girl can dream.). military that has implications for people in all sectors. Video interview.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Cómo consigue una marca la confianza de sus (potenciales) clientes | Soy Digital 2011 says: January 3, 2011 at 5:14 pm [.] Social Media UY says: January 11, 2011 at 11:31 am [.]

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. People and businesses are looking for opportunities. What kinds of opportunities? Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

This may change with trends like the proliferation of personalized therapeutics into product markets. Retailers historically need trained stored managers, a few great merchandisers, and, in most cases, store staff with a customer service orientation. Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers. This new solution enabled retailers to better understand their customers, track their behavior, and deliver personalized offers based on Capillary''s predictive analytics capability.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. On the retail side, Apple's recent record-shattering financial performance meant that each Apple store employee produced, on average, $473,000 in sales. Cook an executor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. Trends need not be domestic. Anticipate international trends, too.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. The subsequent mobile revolution created challenges for retailers who found customers flocking to online alternatives. In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500 had an average stay of 61 years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Growth has slowed sharply among oil exporters and North African countries affected by the 2011 Arab Spring democracy movements—but the rest of Africa posted accelerating growth at an average annual rate of 4.4%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Retailers such as America’s Best Buy and Germany’s Media Markt also quit China last year while after nine years, Britain’s Tesco concluded that it was unlikely to make a dent on its own in China and entered into a joint venture with a state-owned enterprise, China Resources Enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 Smucker's is hardly the only company capitalizing on the shrinking middle, as retailers and other consumer packaged goods makers find ways to turn contraction into growth, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Shareholder returns matched profits exactly, at a compound 14%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

When it comes to e-commerce across the globe, I''ve noticed a very interesting trend. Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. Entrepreneurship Global business Retail COD' Once a copycat succeeds, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% In Brazil, Microsoft and Google helped overcome a similar problem in city slums, home to some 11 million people, many of whom own smart phones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Maybe so, but I see it as part of a bigger, more formidable trend that has vast implications for the future of almost every business: what I call the global tilt. The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., percent, and named it a global leader in consumer electronics. They learn fast.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. In China, the five largest retailers account for only 10% of the total retail market , so most customers have to buy items in mom-and-pop stores. Chinese users are also more engaged than Americans are.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Google Trends is telling us one thing. This story was inspired by " Forecasting private consumption : survey-based indicators vs. Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011). But Google Trends was a whole new world for her. I can't wait any longer. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Riding on the inputs of such third-party developers and their popular applications, Walgreens enhanced overall customer engagement with its retail stores. We expect these trends to become much more widespread. Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. One case in point is Twitter. This ultimately led to an explosion in Twitter usage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Another similar Goodwill program, Paperworks Studio , gives people with disabilities training and employment in making greeting cards which are sold at select Goodwill stores, specialized stores, and retailers. For more on businesses creating social good, see HBR's Spotlight on The Good Company in the November 2011 issue.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The news is part of a larger trend of closings that some are calling the retail apocalypse. The rise of e-commerce, combined with a shift in consumer preference toward dining out over shopping and with years of overbuilding , has made for distinctly unattractive economics in traditional retail. billion purchase of Whole Foods.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Maybe so, but I see it as part of a bigger, more formidable trend that has vast implications for the future of almost every business: what I call the global tilt. The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., percent, and named it a global leader in consumer electronics. They learn fast.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Many large, successful companies are creating offices in California’s Silicon Valley to spot big new trends and learn how they can transform their organization in ways they couldn’t otherwise imagine. Many industries, from retail to manufacturing, have been fundamentally transformed by Silicon Valley technology,” said Zawacki.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. China, China, and China.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point. Taken together, these trends are cause for concern, as they may threaten the viability of U.S. Yet small business lending has declined steadily since the recession. small businesses.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

So, all those folks that petition against the entry of the next Walmart in their neighborhood; the best way to buck the trend is to continue shopping at the local hardware store. And I really did come back with a new-found respect for the “retail civility&# demonstrated by the Parisians. Del, I had a GREAT vacation!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Where are the next trends and opportunities? This chapter talks candidly about recent trends. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year. When business news gets on Page 1 of every day’s newspaper and every evening TV newscast, then the public notices and cares. It’s a whole new world.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The millions of customers in its database represent the gamut of buying histories, buying propensities, profitability, demographics and cost to serve.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It developed the NOOK and has devoted significant space in its retail stores to display and promote it, and it has a broad online library. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them. Barnes & Noble appears to be doing a lot of the right things. It’s an ongoing process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. These instruments share a common objective: to influence purchase decisions by equipping consumers with incremental spending power for specific brands and retailers. What does this mean for retailers and brands? Gift cards.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

Barnes & Noble (B&N), America's largest bookseller, is bucking these trends. In the first quarter of 2011, industry-wide book sales were down 2.5% Any big retailer makes long-term financial forecasts to assess the viability of store sites, yet B&N understands that its projections must be exceptionally uncertain these days.

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